Chapter 25 - The Great Depression (1929-1939)

self-reliance

His belief in voluntary _________ prevented him from using federal intervention to relieve human suffering and contributed to his underestimation of the financial collapse.

brain trust

In 1933, newly inaugurated President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his _________ set out to restore the economy and public confidence.

New Deal programs

Most of the early _________ eased hardships but did not restore prosperity; they helped to end the economy’s downward spiral but still left millions unemployed and mired in poverty.

Father Charles E. Coughlin

The “radio priest,” _________, charged that the New Deal was a Jewish-atheist-Communist conspiracy.

Huey Long

Senator _________ of Louisiana and Dr. Francis Townsend of California proposed radical plans to reshape the distribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.

Second New Deal

Roosevelt responded to the criticism and the continuing economic hardship with a _________, which sought to reshape the nation’s social structure by expanding the role of the federal government.